Thanks for the reply but no, I wasn't using any filters.
The relevant XML sections are like this:
<code file="listFiles.py"/>
...
<param name = "url_paste"
label = "Select a file to copy"
type="select"
multiple="false"
dynamic_options = "listFiles()"/>
Mutlu
On 24 August 2012 17:28, John Chilton <chilton@msi.umn.edu> wrote:
> I cannot speak to the code running twi, but are using a unique_value
> filter? The dynamic_options code use to completely lock up our galaxy
> server for minutes at a time before I applied this optimization:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/jmchilton/galaxy-central-dynamic-options-fix/changeset/e4856cc362d92f7857699c5be6cab1a75c29932f
>
> It is only relevant if you are using a unique_value filter though.
>
> -John
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Mutlu Dogruel <mutludogruel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wrote a script for dynamically populating a user form. It works but
>> it's slow. When I checked the Galaxy log, I saw that the method called
>> by my custom tool's xml is being run twice (the same debugging lines
>> appear twice in the log, and that happens consistently). Is there any
>> explanation for this? The script returns a list of strings fetched
>> from a remote server. It's running a bit slow, taking up to 6 seconds,
>> so it would be great if I can half that!
>>
>> For testing purposes, I wrote a dummy method that returns a few
>> characters in a list of tuples. Again, my print statement in the
>> Python script is called twice. Has anyone noticed such behaviour?
>>
>> Could it be related to this Galaxy bug:
>> https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/issue/491/data_column-parameter-bug-cannot-select
>>
>> The Galaxy script shown on that page says:
>> "NOTE: This is wasteful since dynamic options and dataset collection
>> happens twice (here and when generating HTML)."
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Mutlu
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